Preferred Term:
polymerase chain reaction
Definition:
In vitro method for producing large amounts of specific DNA or RNA fragments of defined length and sequence from small amounts of short oligonucleotide flanking sequences (primers).
Concept Schemes:
NALT Core
NALT Full
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
Narrower Concepts:
- mismatch amplification mutation assay
- target region amplification polymorphism
- quantitative polymerase chain reaction
- reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
- amplified fragment length polymorphism
- simple sequence length polymorphism
- random amplified polymorphic DNA technique
- genome walking
- rapid amplification of cDNA ends
Entry Terms:
- multiplex polymerase chain reaction
- DNA amplification technique
- DNA amplification (in vitro)
- amplification (genetic technique)
- RNA amplification (in vitro)
- PCR (genetic technique)
- gene amplification (technique)
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/8124
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